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VIDEO: The Difference Between a Democracy and a Republic
PRAGERU.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Mawlana Sultan Muhammad Shah, 1934: "As an ideal, my preference is for [Indian] self-government either on the American federal plan or on Swiss lines leaving ultimate power through the Initiative, the Referendum, and perhaps the Recall."] ARTICLE: After the 1787 Constitutional Convention, legend says a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what kind of government had been created. Franklin responded "...a republic, madam. If you can keep it." A republic? But isn't our country a democracy? Actually, pure democracy frightened the Convention Delegates as a path to mob rule so they rejected it. Instead, they built both democratic and non-democratic features into the Constitution to protect liberty. That's why Wyoming has 2 Senators, the same number as California and every other state, so large population states like California can't overwhelm the needs and interests of small states like Wyoming. "More democratic" doesn't always mean more just. A republic is a brilliant way of diffusing power. Our founders understood ...
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Supreme Court Ruling Proves Once Again That Religion And Education Are Inseparable
THEFEDERALIST.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2003: "[Education] must also stimulate students to consider a variety of perspectives on some of the fundamental questions posed by the human condition: 'What is truth?' 'What is reality?' and 'What are my duties to my fellow man, to my country and *to God?*'"] ARTICLE: The US Supreme Court's June 21, 6-3 ruling shows learning doesn't happen in a moral vacuum, and it's dangerously absurd to insist otherwise. Both the majority and dissenting opinions illuminate a truth about education and religion: the two are closely intertwined. All education is religious, and all religion involves education. Although people think schools have replaced religous values and beliefs with knowledge and skills, they are sorely mistaken. All schools are quite religious, it's just that their religion is secular humanism. They've replaced God with model human beings (world leaders, civil rights activists, scientists, etc.) not to mention, the unrelenting effort to replace the home and church community with the school community. That makes every non-secular school ...
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Barr: Public Schools Are Now So Hostile To Christians, They're Unconstitutional
THEFEDERALIST.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2006: "But if freedom of religion deteriorates into freedom from religion, then societies will find themselves lost in a bleak and unpromising landscape with no compass, no roadmap and no sense of ultimate direction." ~~ "A healthy sense of public integrity, in my view, will be difficult to nurture over time without a strong religious underpinning." ~~ "How can we inspire people to reach beyond rampant materilaism, self-indulgent individualism, and unprincipled relativism?"] ARTICLE: The West is facing its deepest crisis and addressing the crisis requires removing militant secularists' monopoly on education, former U.S. Attorney General, William Barr said at a Chicago conference. He explained self-government cannot exist without a citizenry that is committed to traditional religion. But anti-religious forces now control the minds of American kids due to their monopoly on U.S. education institutions. "You can't finesse it anymore. You can't pretend what's being taught in schools is compatible with traditional religion, nor can you pretend schools are neutral any more." "The last couple of hundred years [has created a new] worldview that boils questions of morality solely down to an individual's internal feelings." Barr said anti-religion leftists have effectively ...
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Salman Farsi: One of the Earliest Muslim Saints -- BoAI Vol #3
GOOGLE.COM -- Salman Farsi, probably the greatest saint of Ismailism, the devoted servant of the Prophet, and the ardent follower of Mawlana Ali and of the Imams, is a figure in the history of Islam which is familiar to all Ismailis, and is much revered by them. His name is also sacred to all Shi'ites, to Sufis. It, therefore, may be surprising that we have so remarkably little authentic information about Salman. There are many early hadiths which show that the legend of Salman was already well known at quite an early time. In view of the importance of the part which he played in the origin of Shi'ism, and thus of Ismailism, every intelligent Ismaili would be interested to hear ...
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Shartash takes the Railway Stakes
Son of Invincible Spirit show off speed. SHARTASH demonstrated both a determined attitude and a strong turn of foot to win the Gr.2 Railway Stakes at The Curragh on Saturday, a first success for H.H. the Aga Khan in the prestigious two-year-old contest. The Invincible Spirit colt defeated the more experienced Ballydoyle runner Blackbeard, and in doing so became the first ...
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Ismaili Institutions Portugal (II Portugal).
Portugal -- In line with all jurisdictions worldwide, Jamati Institutions launches the new platform - Ismaili Institutions Portugal (II Portugal). Ismaili Institutions Portugal is a new digital platform, which replaces the previous JIS platform (Jamati Information System) and will centralize data related to the Jamat and Institutions, ensuring a simpler, more agile and improved functional communication, allowing the community and institutions ...
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Turning the tide in favour of action
Global -- An Ismaili Imamat delegation led by Prince Rahim is attending the Ocean Conference in Lisbon at the invitation of the United Nations (UN). The conference aims to raise awareness and action around the alarming degradation of the planet's oceans - which not only provide us with oxygen, food and livelihoods, but act as a giant carbon sink. Our ocean ...
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Architecture--Providing Solutions for the Future
USA -- The Kennesaw State University Department of Architecture, in collaboration with the Ismaili Council for the Southeastern United States, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and commemorated the fifth anniversary of The Global Centre for Pluralism in Ottawa, Canada on April 13, 2022. The program was titled, "Building for Change", acknowledging the power of architecture to bring about meaningful change ...
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How Iman Vellani became a Marvel superhero
Global -- You've heard it a hundred times: be careful what you forward on WhatsApp. But at the same time, be careful what you dismiss on WhatsApp -- a lesson Iman Vellani learned after receiving a message that changed her life. Iman is from Markham, Ontario, and attends Unionville Jamatkhana. On 8 June 2022 she catapulted to international fame by debuting ...
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Treading the path to financial success
Global -- In the 1990s, the United Nations launched a financial literacy course to help families develop a budget and organise their savings. Word soon began to spread, and the course gained in popularity. Today, members of the Jamat across the world are both delivering the course content and benefiting from it alike. Today, two billion people worldwide lack access to ...
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Imamat Day 2022
Portugal -- No próximo dia 11 de julho, o nosso amado Mawlana Hazar Imam celebra o seu 65º aniversário como líder e guia espiritual de todos os Muçulmanos Ismaili. Iremos celebrar esta data como "Um Jamat" no próximo dia 16 de Julho, no Centro de Congressos de Lisboa. Inscreva-se em iiportugal.org. As celebrações por ocasião do 65º aniversário do nosso amado ...
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